Among the most significant recommendations in the report is the creation of an "immigration probation" system.

Although President Trump mostly railed against illegal immigration during his campaign last year, his administration has put into motion a broad and unprecedented set of policy changes aimed at substantially limiting legal immigration.

Wahidi helps run Afghan Hope Community Development, a volunteer-led nonprofit that assists Afghan refugees and families in the Sacramento, California, area. They’ve helped more than 5,000 Afghan families in the past five years, he says, and the fear spread almost instantly, and well before the shooting near the White House.

Immigration courts are overwhelmed, with a backlog just under 3.7 million cases, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Asylum-seekers often wait years for decisions on their cases.

A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.

But over the past year, as arrests spike under President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations, he and other lawyers have started taking them again. “We just all feel a responsibility to help,” Block told the Hawai‘i Journalism Initiative on Monday.

The Trump administration said it would reduce the period of time that work permits are valid for refugees, asylees and other immigrants granted legal protections in the U.S.

As Chad Curry busily ferries his teenage children through the streets of their Chicago neighborhood of West Ridge, he eyes passing vehicles with a skepticism he didn’t have just a few months ago.

Trisha Chatterjee is accused of giving fake medical records to city prosecutors after she was charged with OVI 'to claim her impairment was due to a date rape drug'

Louisiana’s top officials welcome federal immigration enforcement efforts, even as officials in the state’s largest city have expressed an unwillingness to aid them.